[octostone]

Amazon’s demand for warehouse picking and packing is highly seasonal, centered around the American holiday season. I think they do have robots, but it’s still cheaper to hire seasonal humans rather than have a bunch of expensive robots idle for 8 months of the year.

One of those dystopian facts that makes me feel some kinda way.

[lotsofpulp]

Is it more or less dystopian than fewer humans being needed due to robots being cheaper?

[garden_hermit]

Ideally, robots doing all of our work should be utopian, leaving humans free to pursue other interests. Unfortunately, the current structure of society instead makes this dystopian.

[xtracto]

That's where we are going with Capitalism. In 500 years when we had improved robotics to the point of being able to do most of human work (excepting maybe knowledge work), it will be cheaper to buy a robot than to hire a human.

With more than 20 billion people at that time (the USA could have 850 million ppl), the only way for people to survive will be through hyper-efficient production processes and equalitarian distribution policies.

[deelowe]

Maybe more? I believe the issue with the human race reaching the singularity point isn’t the world post singularity, but the transition period leading up to it.

[cestith]

4 months full usage, 1 month maintenance, 5 months of Amazon Rental Robots.

[philjohn]

modern day Biorobots